I recently bought a Honda again for the first time in 5 years, after briefly cheating with Subaru. It made me rediscover why I love Honda so much in the first place, discovering all their neat little engineering surprises. I realized The Honda Way of thinking is very closely aligned to my Product Management philosophies as… Read more

When I started BudgetSimple, I had a bold policy. 100% refunds, guaranteed for life, no questions asked. I think I first learned this mentality from my very first job, at Sears. At Sears, the customer was always right. I worked at a Sears in a pretty poor blue collar part of Maryland. Very often, customers… Read more

Unlimited PTO is the new hotness at tech companies. It’s a great marketing/recruiting tool: “wait I get UNLIMITED time off???”, but many people in the industry are skeptical, with the belief that peer pressure will mean no one will take time off. After all, an employee can’t literally take unlimited time off, or can they…?… Read more

When I wrote the last blog post, I didn’t expect it to quite have the reach it did, it seems like many people have been burned by Facebook advertising and it resonated with them quite well. There were a few misconceptions and other things I saw, and perhaps I unfairly targeted my wrath on Facebook… Read more

Two years ago, Limited Run posted (in a post that seems to be down now, but covered by TechCrunch here) that they believed 80% of the traffic Facebook sent from pay per click ads were bots. The resolution seemed to be that Facebook would investigate and fix any problems. Veritasium also called out Facebook for… Read more

People are usually wrong about what is correct to do financially. For example, “common knowledge” is that a Savings account is the safest place for your money, and the few people who do have savings in our country probably have it sitting in one of these accounts. But look at the Interest Rates. Right now… Read more

Over the winter something interesting happened. LaunchRock came out and gave startups that are still “under construction” a simple launch page which they can use to collect email addresses and gauge interest. Collecting emails is a great way to get in touch with your potential users when you are ready to go. I’ve since put… Read more

I noticed in the Beerby traffic logs that we were getting an unusual amount of hits from the query “cake central”. This isn’t altogether unusual, as we have a lot of locations on our website, we often come up near the top for those locations if they are big beer places. But “Cake Central” just… Read more